The Google search engine is the most popular by far, but other options do exist. And the federal government wants those options to get more attention. That’s due to a court case in which Google was ...

Learn what indexability means, how it differs from crawlability, and how to fix common indexation issues. Ensure your most valuable pages appear and perform in Google’s index. You’ve spent hours ...

Nearly 30 years ago, when Google launched the search engine that started its long march to dominance, its founders started without much hardware. Known at first as Backrub and operated on the Stanford ...

Crawlability is the ability for search engines to access and navigate your website’s pages. It’s what allows your content to be discovered, indexed, and shown in search results. Without crawlability, ...

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a shake-up of Google's search engine in a crackdown aimed at curbing the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly while rebuffing the U.S. government's attempt to ...

OpenAI has a strategic lead by making publisher agreements and releasing SearchGPT to a small group of users.

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Shares of Google parent Alphabet Inc. tanked more than 7% on Wednesday after a senior Apple executive signaled that the iPhone maker was looking at search engine alternatives for its Safari web ...